BARD TO THE BONE

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In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

– Irving Layton, 1912-2006
– The Whole Bloody Bird, 1969

From Northumberland Today

In Ted Amsden, Cobourg has, at last, produced a poetical leader with a poem-grown Canadian voice worthy of inspiration. Canada long ago evolved and shucked its colonial constraints; likewise, Ted Amsden has now shucked the classic stuffiness of the better poems and garden set.

I can hear units of verse throughout the Universe applauding the appointment.

Bard to the bone, Ted Amsden is a word warrior wunderbard who will beat back the sub-verse activities of the Blandinistas (aka mediocrity mafia) of Blandland. The 101st Textual Assault Group of the Creative Intelligence Agency, armed with the latest surface-to-sentence similes awaits his poetically correct inspirations.

On behalf of the poetariet of the Imagine Nation of the Peoples Republic of Poetry, I congratulate Ted Amsden for his official appointment and we look forward to his ++expansionist activities on behalf of our poem and native land, the United Imagine Nations.

May he continue to practice unsafe text without a net.

Wally Keeler

Peoples Republic of Poetry